Maungaharuru Tangitū is a collective of

Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...

'' hapū'' (subtribes) of the

Ngāti Kahungunu Ngāti Kahungunu is a Māori iwi located along the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The iwi is traditionally centred in the Hawke's Bay and Wairārapa regions. The tribe is organised into six geographical and administrative di ...

iwi in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, who joined forces for Treaty of Waitangi settlement negotiations. The ''hapū'' are Marangatūhetaua (also known as Ngāti Tū), Ngāi Tauira,

Ngāi Te Ruruku ki Tangoio Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as " tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, ...

, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurumōkihi (formerly known as Ngāi Tatara) and Ngāti Whakaari. The group's '' rohe'' (tribal area) ranges from Bay View in the south to the Waitaha Stream (just north of the Waikari River) in the north, and from the

Maungaharuru Range The Maungaharuru Range is located 34 km from Napier in the New Zealand region of Hawke's Bay. The name means in ''the mountain that resounded'' in Te Reo Māori due to the bird population. Maungaharuru is the spiritual mountain of the hap� ...

in the west to the sea in Hawke Bay, that part of the sea being known as Tangitū. The ''hapū'' have one marae, the Tangoio Marae at the rural locality of

Tangoio Tangoio is a farming locality and beach 23 kilometres north of Napier, New Zealand, Napier, 7 kilometres north of Whirinaki, Hawke's Bay, Whirinaki and 7 kilometres south-west of Waipatiki Beach in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Isl ...

, about 20 kilometres north of

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. Pūnanga Te Wao is the name of the

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. In October 2020, the Government committed $6,020,910 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade it and 18 other Hawke's Bay marae, creating 39 jobs.

References

External links

Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust
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See also

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